Location: | DeKalb County Courthouse Annex
556 North McDonough Street
Room B190
Decatur, Georgia 30030
Tel: 404-371-2718 | Court Website: | Click Here |
| Court Information: | 8:30 A.M. until 5:00 P.M., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays
Police fingerprinting done by appointment. You will need to call (404) 297-3934 to set one up.
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User Reported Processes
Type: | New Application | Submitted: | Aug. 20, 2009 | | Total Time Taken: | 40 min | Total Payment: | $63.00 |
Process: | $58 Cash Only to the probate court and it is easy to find. Parking cost $6.00 and wasn't to hard to get in and out of. People at probate court were nice but not ones to chat. No social sercurity code needed. Then you have to make an appointment to have your prints done in a different building. Call ahead because they only do these prints on certain days of the week. Took 1.5 hours from arrival to departure when prints were done. |
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Type: | New Application | Submitted: | Nov. 5, 2009 | | Total Time Taken: | Has not arrived yet | Total Payment: | 63 |
Process: | Application is done where they do marriage licenses. Charges are cash only($58). Clerk said Tues and Thursday are slowest days.
Appointment for prints was a week from when I called(cash $5.Not born in USA must bring US passport to fingerprint session. |
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Type: | New Application | Submitted: | Jul. 29, 2009 | | Total Time Taken: | Info not submitted | Total Payment: | 63 |
Process: | Total now at the courthouse is $58, plus $6 if you park in the deck. Fingerprinting costs $5. Also, the Police station will only fingerprint you if you have an appointment. If you want to get your permit in one day, you will need to call (404) 297-3934 and make an appointment for the same day. I did not know about the appointment, and was not able to get fingerprinted on the same day as I applied. |
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Type: | New Application | Submitted: | Sep. 2, 2009 | | Total Time Taken: | Info not submitted | Total Payment: | $63 CASH ONLY! |
Process: | First time applications and renewals are now exactly the same after the law changes. It is a total of $63, cash only I believe, with $58 paid to the probate court, and $5 paid to the police department for fingerprints. Click through the "court website" link on the DeKalb County page, and then click the "License information" tab, and they have everything explained in detail and up to date as of July 2009. |
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Type: | New Application | Submitted: | Sep. 3, 2009 | | Total Time Taken: | Application and fingerprinting was about 1 hour to | Total Payment: | $63. $58 for app and $5 for fingerprints |
Process: | You go to the courthouse in Decatur and head all the way to the basement. The room is the same as where you get your marriage licence. Ironic. You fill out a form and swear to the clerk that all your information is true. She inputs all the information in the computer and prints it out for you to take to the police station for your finger printing. A previous post (on this web page) for the Dekalb process said it was $42. When I went on August 26, 2009, the price was now $58 for a five year licence, and $6 to park in the courthouse parking garage. Probably could have done the parking meter, but not sure how long it would take. Cash or check, no credit cards. After you get your paperwork, you call the police department and set an appointment for fingerprinting. I got mine scheduled 5 days after initiating the permit process. I arrived at the police station on Camp Road (the complex off of Memorial and 285)about 30 minutes prior to my appointment and while no one else was in the waiting room, I waited 40 minutes to be called back. I paid a $5 fee for the fingerprinting. The elctronic fingerprinting machine was working and the whole thing took 10 minutes at most. After I was done, the officer told me it would be 2-4 months before I got my permit in the mail. |
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